Phloeoeharis.'] sTAPUTLiNiDiE. 433 



Oxfordsliire ; Sherwood Forest ; Lincoln; Scarborouf^li ; NorLhuniberlaud district; 

 Scotl.ind, under bark of Scotch tir, Tay, Dee, aud Moray districts. 



PSEVI>OPSIS, Newman. 



This genus at present appears to contain four species, which occur 

 respectively in Europe, Colorado, Caraccas, and Cliili ; our British 

 speci(vs is very distinct by reason of the strong raised lines on the thorax 

 aud elytra. 



P. sulcata, Newiu, Elongate-oblong, narrowed in front and 

 bebiud, dark ])it-chy-red or brown, with the apex and raised margins of 

 elytra lighter ; head considerably narrower than thorax, rather long, with 

 eyes not prominent, rugose, M-ith three longitudinal keels, one in centre 

 dividing into three before base, and two near eyes ; antennae rather 

 short and stout, ferruginous ; thorax moderately transverse, a little nar- 

 rower than elytra, with sides rounded, lateral margins strong, explanate ; 

 the disc is furnished with four strong longitudinal keels, the intervals 

 between which are excavate and rugose, the central one being traversed 

 by a fine raised line 5 elytra subquadrate, a little transverse, with four 

 strong raised keels (with rugose intervals), which are slightly curved 

 inwards at apex, lateral margins raised ; hind body rather long, finely 

 rugose, with broad, strongly raised lateral margins ; legs ferruginous, 

 with tarsi paler. L. 3-3| mm. 



In haystack refuse, old faggots, &c. ; rare ; Caterlianij Rcigate ; Kingsgate (one 

 specimen on the shore); Wicken Fen ; Llangollen; Oxfordshire; Scarborough; Peudle- 

 bury, near Manchester, in decaying brake fern, ^c. 



PIESTINiE. 



This sub-family contains rather more than a dozen genera, of which 

 only three are found in Europe, and one at l-east of these, Triijumirns, is 

 separated from it by some authors ; they are distinguished by their 

 globose or subglobosc anterior coxse ; the genus Glyptoma has the tarsi 

 three-joinled, but in our single British genus, Prognatlia, they are all 

 five-jointed. 



PROG-NATKA, Latreille. {Siagonium, Kirby.) 



This genus comprises about half-a-dozen species from Europe, North 

 America, and Ceylon ; oiir single British species is chiefly remarkable 

 for the great development of the head and mandibles in male ; it occurs 

 under bark. 



P. quadricornis, Lac. {rufpennis, Blond., Siagonium i-corne, 

 Kirby). Elongate, linear, depressed, almost glabrous, pitch-black, with 

 the elytra and sometimes thorax chestnut-brown or reddish and the a[)ex 



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